The little girl has bruises, but her condition is stable, according to the doctor. “She was probably born seven hours after the quake,” she adds. She weighs 3,175 kg, so she was born on schedule, she says.
With their few means, it took the rescuers hours to remove the rubble to extract the bodies of the rest of the family.
They were placed side by side in a relative’s house, covered with sheets, awaiting the funeral.
In the room, Khalil Sawadi lists their names. “We are displaced from Deir Ezzor, Abdullah is my cousin and I am married to his sister,” he says.
The family had fled the volatile Deir Ezzor region further east, believing they would be safe in Jindires, a town controlled since 2018 by Turkish forces and pro-Turkish rebel groups.
Some fifty houses collapsed in this Syrian town, relatively close to the epicenter of the earthquake in Turkey, according to an AFP correspondent.
The earthquake has caused more than 7,800 deaths in Turkey and Syria, according to the latest balances, which do not stop increasing.
According to the White Helmets, an emergency service that operates in the Syrian rebel areas, more than 200 buildings have been left to the ground in this sector.
This group pleaded Tuesday to international organizations to come to the aid of these damaged and forgotten regions. “Time is short. Hundreds of people are trapped in the rubble,” she warned.